US PoliERA 2018 |OT5| A Total Goat Rodeo
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I think she is basically rooting for bad numbers so Trump looks bad, and these are good numbers so Trump looks good? I understand the impulse for wanting Trump to take an L, but at the cost of others is something I struggle with. I don't generally cheer for people losing health care or their employment if they are decent folk and not everyone impacted by his policies are Trump voters.
Huh. Just as a thought experiment how would that go...
I generally believe a downturn is coming. Trump's bad policies are going to catch up to him, so I don't wish for an L, I expect one.
Why is Hawaii, a supermajority DDD state, not a leader in progressive politics?
No health insurance mandate, not a leader in EV adoption, etc
No health insurance mandate, not a leader in EV adoption, etc
So now that Illinois has approved the Equal Rights Amendment we only need one more state to ratify for it to be affirmed by 3/4 of the states.
I have a question though, since Congress ratified it in 1972 but the required amount of states did not affirm it in time, would 2/3 of Congress have to vote to approve it again for it to become the 28th amendment?
I have a question though, since Congress ratified it in 1972 but the required amount of states did not affirm it in time, would 2/3 of Congress have to vote to approve it again for it to become the 28th amendment?
Kasich or Jeb would have been one of the most popular Republican presidents since Reagan with these job numbers
It would have cemented trickle down economics as being the best road for the country for another generation.
It would have cemented trickle down economics as being the best road for the country for another generation.
This I agree with. A downturn is inevitable. If you are a home owner, all you have to do is look at your house's value over the past 2 years.
The question is, is that downturn coming before 2020? I'm amazed that the markets keep going up despite all the garbage going on.
just as a demonstration that someone who is not a natural born citizen is infinitely more qualified than trump and maybe we should reconsider that whole restriction.
Also, I am terrified trump wins a second term. So like I'll take anything I can get :/
(He'd be wayyyyy better than kasich)
I dunno. First off, Trump's so ineffective that he hasn't done much beyond destroy the lives of a few thousand people, which is a bona fide crime against humanity but a non-factor economically. The economy does well when politics is boring, and most of Trump's excitement is outside a "Job Creator"'s areas of concern (except for the tariffs but we'll see). If an emotionally stunted narcissist embarrasses the nation, endorses white supremacy, pardons white-collar criminals and engages in petty grift, it's still business as usual on Wall Street.
In that context my concern is that these numbers are the wrong numbers. Unemployment is down, sure, but none of the gains have been realized by the working class. Health care is unaffordable, education is unaffordable, child care is unaffordable, housing is unaffordable, wages are stagnant. . . who cares if you have a job when you can't make ends meet? But politically, incumbents benefit from low unemployment, so we're in danger of getting the worst of both worlds as early as 2020. . . an increasingly permanent underclass voting for the people screwing them because hey, the economy's doing well!
That $70 million number is actually too low if we add that the Republicans also launched 4 additional independent counsel investigations into Clinton cabinet members. The total cost was already at nearly $80 million in 1999, and some (like the Henry Cisneros one) would go on for years afterwards. It would be nice to have the independent counsel statute now, but it's clear that the Republicans would have used it to launch decades long fishing expeditions into every little conspiracy theory surrounding the Obama administration rather than just wasting Congress' time with it.
Class, today you'll be making your own Nazi propaganda! First, come up with 5 slurs towards Jews (make it up!)
Because it's basically a one-party state. The Democratic Party houses probably as many conservatives as it does progressives. Anyone who wants a future in Hawaii politics joins the Democrats regardless of ideology.
One of the Democratic leaders in the State Senate joked after the 2016 elections that they'll "finally be able to get things done" after the sole Republican member was defeated by a Democrat. There is some truth to that, though - the five-member committees often came down to 2 progressives, 2 conservative/moderate Democrats and 1 Sam Slom (the Republican). That meant Slom was often able to cajole the two centrists into blocking progressive bills.
All that being said, Hawaii was exempt from most of the ACA because they already had legislated most of its provisions at the state level. So it's not like the state is entirely governed by its centrists, but they have greater power in Hawaii than they do in other state Democratic Parties.
He's got an update- thankfully the admin had the same reaction as us.
I don't want trump to take a L.. I don't want trump to be president. Whatever it takes for that to happen is what I want. And it isn't for me. It's for everyone everywhere. Any suffering that causes it will be temporary.
Yeah, but I think that is an actual ad from history. I just don't understand what educational value this teacher thought this exercise would have.
First, imagine being that stupid.
Second, imagine that many of our schools have budgets so low they hire people that are that fucking stupid.
Third. Stupid, or emboldened?
Fourth. Solutions: ____
Second, imagine that many of our schools have budgets so low they hire people that are that fucking stupid.
Third. Stupid, or emboldened?
Fourth. Solutions: ____
We used to do some stuff like that when I was in school. Depending on how it was presented to the class and the grade level, I don't think it's necessarily a terrible thing.
If you do good on the assignment do you get a gold star sticker?
She needs peace and rest. Hopefully she can let herself get some sleep. Maybe some Ambient would help?
I'm impressed someone decided to put that much effort into researching such a topic. How did they measure the dinner duration?
Yeah, just on my mind with the Roseanne and Planet of the Apes stuff. Like damn.
I am assuming they are just using the amount of time before they started heading home. The document seems to be behind a paywall unfortunately.
When I taught literature, I second-guessed myself whenever I taught a semi-controversial title because I live in a conservative area. I lost sleep over that stuff. I can't imagine a teacher not having the forethought to realize that this slave ad would be a terrible, terrible idea.
Yep. Hypocrisy of the highest order. Evere member of congress should be questioned on this.
Judging from the tweets above, a local newspaper will soon get to write about an embattled (racist) teacher.
I guess we've all collectively agreed to pretend he never wrote the letter.
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